Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

Women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 7 (heats & final)
Competitors	from 11 nations
Teams	11
Winning time	47.5
Medalists
Xenia Stad-de Jong Netty Witziers-Timmer Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs Fanny Blankers-Koen  Netherlands Shirley Strickland June Maston Betty McKinnon Joyce King  Australia Viola Myers Nancy Mackay Diane Foster Patricia Jones 23x15px Canada

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Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The women's 4 x 100 metres relay event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place on August 7. The Dutch team won with a time of 47.5.

Results

Heats

HEAT 1 1st Canada 47.9 sec 2nd Australia 48.0 sec 3rd France 48.1 sec 4th Brazil 49.0 sec

HEAT 2 1st Great Britain 48.4 sec 2nd Austria 50.0 sec 3rd Chile 51.5 sec 4th Italy DNF

HEAT 3 1st Holland 47.6 sec 2nd Denmark 48.1 sec 3rd USA 48.3 sec

Final

Rank	Country	Time (hand)	Notes
	Netherlands	47.5
	Australia	47.6
	23x15px Canada	47.8
4	Great Britain	48.0
5	Denmark	48.2
6	Austria	49.2

Wind: 0.2 m/s

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Women's 4x100 metre relay, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-09-20.